Włodzimierz Książek (1951 in Warsaw, Poland – body found May 18, 2011 in Pawtucket, USA) was a Polish-born contemporary artist based in New England, and since 2001 worked from a 6000 sq.
[2] During next few years he had received numerous grants and fellowships, including Yaddo artist-in-resident 1983 grant, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Sweet Briar College (1984), Millay Colony for the Arts(1984), Ragdale Foundation (1984), Dorland Mountain Colony, Altos de Chavon (1985), Montalvo Arts Center (1985), Djerassi Artists Residency (1986), Artists Space (1987), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (1991), and artist-in-residence at Loughborough University, England, and Dartmouth College.
[3] Wlodzimierz Ksiazek was visiting lecturer/Visiting artists at a numerous colleges and universities, including Marlboro College, Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, He died in mysterious circumstances in his studio in Pawtucket, RI, where his body was discovered on May 18, 2011.
The oil paint seems at times hewn with a palette knife, either roughly or in clean lines, in the case of the latter to formally oppose the chaotic nature of the gradations of color and unexpected buildups of texture.
The play of somewhat straight strokes with roughness results in what Ksiazek says could evoke "particular images, for example, archeological sites, floor plans of artifacts such as cathedrals or quotations from architecture."